Īpart from the Foundation itself, there are numerous rival organizations (collectively referred to as Groups of Interest, or GOIs) which are also actively involved with the paranormal world.

These documents describe the SCPs and include instructions for keeping them safely contained, as well as supplementary incident reports or experimentation logs. The Foundation maintains documentation for all SCPs which they are aware of which can include or link to related reports and files. The Foundation also acquires disposable human test subjects called D-class personnel, who are usually (though not always) convicted criminals taken from prisons around the world, and forces them to take part in experiments with potentially dangerous SCPs in order to avoid risking the safety of Foundation employees themselves. Īt the Foundation's secret facilities, SCPs are studied and researched by scientists in order to improve containment methods for them. This is accomplished through censorship of mass media, and by dosing all eyewitnesses with amnestic drugs which erase their memories of anomalous events. If an anomaly is too widespread, elusive, or otherwise inaccessible, containment usually consists of suppressing all knowledge of the SCP from the public. Whenever an SCP anomaly is discovered, teams of undercover Foundation agents (often called Mobile Task Forces, or MTFs) are deployed to either collect and transport the object to one of the organization's many secret facilities, or to contain it at its location of discovery if transportation is not possible. All information regarding the existence of the Foundation and SCPs are strictly withheld from the general public in order to prevent mass hysteria that would supposedly occur if they were leaked, and allow human civilization to continue functioning under a masquerade of 'normalcy'. If left uncontained, many of the more dangerous anomalies will pose a serious threat to humans or even all life on Earth.

They include living beings and creatures, artifacts and objects, locations and places, abstract concepts, and incomprehensible entities which display supernatural abilities or other extremely unusual properties. Despite their extremely secretive nature, the Foundation is entrusted by governments around the world to capture and contain various unexplained paranormal phenomena that defy the known laws of nature (referred to as 'anomalies', 'SCP objects', 'SCPs', or informally as 'skips'). The fictional setting centers around the findings and activities of the SCP Foundation: an international secret society consisting of a scientific research institution with a paramilitary intelligence agency to support their goals.

The SCP universe has inspired numerous fan-made adaptations in widely varying forms of media including books, comics, music, video games, animated and live-action short films. The wiki's literary works have been praised for their ability to convey horror through a quasi-scientific and academic writing style, as well as for their high standards of quality. The website also contains 'Foundation Tales', short stories featuring various characters and settings in the SCP universe. The majority of works on the SCP Wiki consist of thousands of SCP files: mock confidential scientific reports that document various SCPs and associated containment procedures. The collaborative writing project operates on the wiki-like website SCP Wiki, and includes elements of many genres such as horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy. Within the website's shared universe, the Foundation is responsible for capturing, containing, and studying various paranormal, supernatural, and other mysterious phenomena unexplained by science (known as 'anomalies' or 'SCPs'), while also keeping their existence hidden from the rest of human society. The SCP Foundation is a fictional secret organization fostered by the collaborative-writing wiki project of the same name.

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